This weekend I hosted a baby shower for a super sweet friend.  I got to hang out with some favorite ladies I had not seen in a while and meet some lovely friends of the momma-to-be's.  One of these friends commented that my house looked like a Pinterest Board.  Once I confirmed this was, in fact, a compliment I was totally flattered.  My house--a Pinterest Board!
But, here's the truth: if she had opened a closet (any closet) or a cabinet, or the laundry room door she would have seen more Pinterest "fails" than perfection.  And had she gone upstairs...wow.  Not at all Pinterest-y.
What my house looks like when we are having "company" versus what it looks like when we are actually living in it are completely different pictures of family life.
We are not tidy.  Any given day there is clean laundry sort of folded sort of sorted on the couch.  There are dirty socks and playground mulch on the floor.  Dishes are piled up.  The tables (both dining room AND kitchen) are covered with school projects, sticky breakfast remnants, and books.
While the vacuum is run every other day, the floor mopped as often and the bathrooms cleaned at least twice a week, I am betting you might think differently.
Six people, one house...mess.
But that is not the "picture" we put out to the world.  We super clean, hide the mess, sanitize the reality and show off how great the house looks.
It seems silly to do.  And I hope it doesn't make people think that we have it all together and live in this Pinterest perfect house.  I hope though, too, that if they ever paid a visit, unannounced, on a week day they wouldn't run screaming from the insanity that greets them.